Rumor: New 3DS Will Not Be Region Locked, New NNID Changes Incoming

A very interesting new rumor has been leaked through our friend Mr. TiLMEN. Though this source has been right on the dot many times before with his leaks, still take what he says with a huge grain of salt, as it is unconfirmed by Nintendo so far. TiLMEN claims that the New 3DS will have its region locking removed, in contrast to the 3DS and Wii U, and will have several big, new changes concerning Nintendo Network IDs.

RUMOR!!! An Alien told me that there is a possibility, that the “NEW #Nintendo#3DS” won’t have #RegionLocking & Big NNiD changes incomming

The New 3DS was just announced for release last week during a Nintendo Direct. Though the New 3DS will be released in Japan later this year and Nintendo of Europe announced a 2015 launch for the New 3DS in Europe, Nintendo of America still has yet to give a release window for the product.

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You know they don't region lock just to keep you from playing games, right? They have to because developers may only have rights to characters in certain locations, or charge differently, or may want to change content for different regions. If Nintendo doesn't do DRM then they get no games from developers. If you don't like it there is 1 way to show it- don't buy games with drm.

Highly doubt any of this is true. Nintendo isn't just going to give up their anti-consumer ways and remove region lock that easily. Plus, it's 10 years too early for there to be a big update to NNID. This is Nintendo we're talking about.
Anyway, as much as I want these rumors to be true, they're...well...too good to be true.

Um... you DO realize that Nintendo is literally the only company region locking their consoles, and that games get released for Sony consoles that NEVER make it outside of Japan due to licensing, and yet they still come out in Japan, region free?